Pizzaiolo
Reno, Nevada
(This Q&A is a part of a collection about pizzerias’ New 12 months’s resolutions. To learn different operators’ resolutions, click on right here.)
What are your prime three objectives in your pizza restaurant within the coming yr?
My prime three objectives for R City Pizza in 2026 are:
1. Proceed to construct and deepen our reference to the Reno neighborhood – making the store a real gathering place.
2. Broaden our sourcing and collaboration with different impartial companies.
3. Preserve innovating with our menu and specials, whereas staying true to what makes Detroit-style pizza particular.
How do you intend to enhance enterprise operations and profitability in 2026?
To enhance operations and profitability, I’m specializing in streamlining prep and stock administration, and investing in crew coaching so we will maintain high quality and repair constant whilst we develop.
How do you intend to remain aggressive in a crowded market?
To remain aggressive, we’ll maintain doing what we’ve got been doing and give attention to maintaining our expertise as open and as human as doable. We do that via our area people initiatives and our social media, to point out that we aren’t only a “model” and that we’re actual people behind all of this.
How do you intend to assist your workers’ development and encourage retention within the new yr?
Supporting my crew is a giant precedence. I need to create extra alternatives for development, each in expertise and management, and ensure R City is a spot folks need to keep long run. At the moment we provide well being advantages, paid imaginative and prescient and dental, supplemental insurance coverage, and 401k on prime of a aggressive pay atmosphere.
What’s one ability or space of data you’d like to enhance as a enterprise proprietor in 2026?
One factor I’m engaged on this yr is changing into a greater chief. I managed eating places for years, very efficiently, however I’ve discovered I do have some obvious weaknesses now that I’m an proprietor that I need to handle, not just for my crew however myself.
